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Daily m Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 130
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, May 21, 1974
Council favors ending fall term by Christmas
ATTACKS REAGAN—Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr., secretary of state and a Democratic candidate for governor, criticized the Reagan administration in a speech at Tommy Trojan Monday. Brown reiterated his support for Proposition 9, a stand which cost him the endorsement of the state AFL-CIO. DT photo by Michael Sedano.
Brown attacks PUC, Reagan in talk here
Edmund G. Brown. Jr.. Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, appears to be running more against Gov. Ronald Reagan than his opponents in the June 4 primary.
In a speech Monday in front of Tommy Trojan, Brown sharply criticized Reagan and his performance as governor.
“The potential of the state is not being lived up to. Reagan is trying to get $1.3 million to build a Taj Mahal for the next governor and running for President,” Brown said.
Brown also hit hard at the Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Transportation.
“The Public Utilities Commission has a staff. It makes recommendations on rate increases. The Public Utilities Commission, composed of political hacks, increased staff recommendations for rate increases by $440 million. I would appoint honest, intelligent people who are devoted to the consumer,” he said.
He attacked the Department of Transportation for doing nothing but “pouring concrete from one end of the state to another.”
The freeway condition signs on the Santa Monica Freeway incurred Brown’s w'rath. He called them expensive toys and totally useless.
Brown stressed his own record as secretary of state in initiating campaign-reform and finan-cial-disclosure laws before the Watergate scandal.
He also attacked his major Democratic opponents—San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and Assembly Speaker Bob
Moretti—for their failure to give support to Proposition 9. an election reform initiative on the June ballot.
“Alioto opposes the initiative and Moretti has agreed not to campaign actively for the measure. I helped write the initiative, helped qualify it for the ballot, and I believe that measure is urgently needed to end political payola in Sacramento.” he said.
Brown promised to improve the quality of education in California, which he believes has deteriorated under Reagan.
“We’re teaching algebra in the third grade and remedial reading in the twelfth. California is at the bottom of the list in vocational education. We’re teaching skills for which there are no longer jobs,” he said.
Following Brown, Cathy O’Neill, a Democratic candidate for secretary of state and lecturer in the Center for Urban Affairs, spoke.
—DON LaPLANTE
BY DON LaPLANTE
Contributing Kditoi
The President’s Advisory Council approved in principle Monday the concluding of the first semester, including final exams, before the Christmas holidays.
The vote came after an hour-long debate on a proposal by the Academic Planning Board, a key council committee, and a substitute motion made by the council’s executive committee.
The proposal which was rejected was modeled after plans at Princeton and Harvard. Under the plan, classes would end before the Christmas break, and the 10 to 14 days before final exams would be devoted to a reading period.
It is an unstructured period during which additional papers or readings might be assigned or regular readings might be digested.
The proposal suggested next year for discussion and experimentation with the program. Then a proposal would be made to President John R. Hubbard.
Instead of this plan, the council endorsed a substitute offered by the executive committee.
It authorizes the executive committee, or a committee it may appoint, to study the calendar problem and report to the council in September. By December, the council is to be ready to make a final proposal to Hubbard.
Following council approval of the proposal, it was proposed that the committee be given a direction to pursue. It was overwhelmingly approved that the
committee be instructed to focus on plans that would end the fall semester by Christmas.
The plans most likely to be considered are the early-semester, 4-1-4 and 4-x-4 plans. The early-semester plan would begin the fall semester two or three weeks earlier and end before Christmas with the spring semester beginning right after vacation.
The 4-1-4 plan would begin the fall semester earlier, allow an interim academic period in January, and begin the spring semester in February, as it is now.
The 4-x-4 plan would make the month of January art open month instead of an interim academic period.
The panel may also consider the trimester and quarter system plans to evaluate their feasibility.
The council elected Frances
Feldman, outgoing president of the Faculty Senate, to replace Martin Levine, who resigned, as chairman of the council for a term ending in May. 1975.
Before Feldman’s election, a petition for a change in the bylaws was presented that would allow the chairman of the council to be any faculty member on the council instead of a faculty member on the executive committee.
Discussion of the change was put over until September after a motion to suspend the rules failed to receive the required two-thirds vote to allow its consideration Monday.
It also changed the minimum voting requirement in some council elections. For constituencies under 1,000 the requirement remains 33^, but for those over 1.000. it will be 33^ of the first 1.000 and 15<7r of the remainder.
Issue looks at vote on program fees
The issues in the programming-fee referendum warrant more discussion and analysis than could be carried in the last regular issue of the Daily Trojan (Friday, May 17).
For this reason, an extra four-page edition has been
authorized, primarily to aii issues in the referendum.
This special edition carries opposing statements on the question of mandatory fees, as well as rebuttals to the basic statements (see page 2).
The extra edition was planned without advertisements to provide maximum coverage of the referendum itself. The issue also provides space for coverage of major events of the past weekend of general campus interest.
This is the last edition of the Daily Trojan for the spring semester.
$191,897 FOR PROJECTS, SERVICES
Student board approves budget
The Student Programming Board approved budgets totaling $191,897 for use in student projects and administrative services during 1974-75 at its meeting Thursday night (see list on page 2). Over $359,000 had originally been requested.
The action came during a 10-hour session Thursday night.
The allocations are based on the projected amount of student fees that will be available next year if the mandatory fee concept is upheld in the referendum
ballot being mailed to students this week.
If the current system of mandatory fees is retained, the $4.50 programming fee on the fall fee bills will bring about $150,000 into the student fund.
The board also expects to make use of approximately $30,000 remaining funds that were allocated but not spent during 1973-74. This includes between $6,000 and $8,000 from the Linda Ronstadt concert ticket sales.
Programming board appeals ruling
The executive committee of the President’s Advisory Council voted Monday to hear an appeal of a ruling of the Credentials and Elections Commission that the Student Programming Board violated the election code for the special referendum on student programming fee.
The appeal will be heard Thursday, when both sides in the referendum will be allowed to present their positions.
The dispute is overtwo half-page advertisements in the Daily Trojan May 16 and 17. They were purchased by the Student Programming Board.
The ruling under appeal stated those purchases were an improper use of funds. The cost was $160. Board members had been advised about a week before that campaign spending would be limited to $100.
The executive committee voted to send out the
campaign arguments and the ballot today to get the material to students as quickly as possible.
The commission had voted Friday to have a copy of its decision included in the ballot package. It could be mailed later if the executive committee decides it necessary.
Also, supporters of the mandatory fees were prohibited from further expenditures until the appeal is decided. If the committee decided the spending was illegal, it could prohibit further spending by those favoring the fees and allow the opponents a higher spending limit or raise the spending limit and declare the money spent part of that allowable under the limit.
A complaint that an editorial in the Parking Lot Paper, the commuter students newsletter, supporting the mandatory fees was a violation was dismissed.
An additional $10,000. unallocated last year, will also carry over.
The primary criteria for the individual budget allocations were the worth of the program to the campus as a whole and its overall quality, said Dave Blackmar. treasurer and director of student services.
Funding was withheld from several groups, such as the Ski. Sailing, and Table Tennis Clubs, because their respective offerings were considered too narrow to affect the majority of the campus community.
The African Peoples Association budget request, one of the highest ($33,326). was tabled until the board could get more information on the quality of its current program.
The most controversial allocation was made to Freshwater Productions, which had requested $42,000 to put on another concert. The board finally approved $29,000.
Three factors were cited by the group for the failure of the Linda Ronstadt concert May 11 on Cromwell Field: the proximity to finals, the lack of a big name, and stiff competition from offerings at UCLA and the Shrine Auditorium

Daily m Trojan
University of Southern California
Vol. LXVI, No. 130
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, May 21, 1974
Council favors ending fall term by Christmas
ATTACKS REAGAN—Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Jr., secretary of state and a Democratic candidate for governor, criticized the Reagan administration in a speech at Tommy Trojan Monday. Brown reiterated his support for Proposition 9, a stand which cost him the endorsement of the state AFL-CIO. DT photo by Michael Sedano.
Brown attacks PUC, Reagan in talk here
Edmund G. Brown. Jr.. Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial nomination, appears to be running more against Gov. Ronald Reagan than his opponents in the June 4 primary.
In a speech Monday in front of Tommy Trojan, Brown sharply criticized Reagan and his performance as governor.
“The potential of the state is not being lived up to. Reagan is trying to get $1.3 million to build a Taj Mahal for the next governor and running for President,” Brown said.
Brown also hit hard at the Public Utilities Commission and the Department of Transportation.
“The Public Utilities Commission has a staff. It makes recommendations on rate increases. The Public Utilities Commission, composed of political hacks, increased staff recommendations for rate increases by $440 million. I would appoint honest, intelligent people who are devoted to the consumer,” he said.
He attacked the Department of Transportation for doing nothing but “pouring concrete from one end of the state to another.”
The freeway condition signs on the Santa Monica Freeway incurred Brown’s w'rath. He called them expensive toys and totally useless.
Brown stressed his own record as secretary of state in initiating campaign-reform and finan-cial-disclosure laws before the Watergate scandal.
He also attacked his major Democratic opponents—San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and Assembly Speaker Bob
Moretti—for their failure to give support to Proposition 9. an election reform initiative on the June ballot.
“Alioto opposes the initiative and Moretti has agreed not to campaign actively for the measure. I helped write the initiative, helped qualify it for the ballot, and I believe that measure is urgently needed to end political payola in Sacramento.” he said.
Brown promised to improve the quality of education in California, which he believes has deteriorated under Reagan.
“We’re teaching algebra in the third grade and remedial reading in the twelfth. California is at the bottom of the list in vocational education. We’re teaching skills for which there are no longer jobs,” he said.
Following Brown, Cathy O’Neill, a Democratic candidate for secretary of state and lecturer in the Center for Urban Affairs, spoke.
—DON LaPLANTE
BY DON LaPLANTE
Contributing Kditoi
The President’s Advisory Council approved in principle Monday the concluding of the first semester, including final exams, before the Christmas holidays.
The vote came after an hour-long debate on a proposal by the Academic Planning Board, a key council committee, and a substitute motion made by the council’s executive committee.
The proposal which was rejected was modeled after plans at Princeton and Harvard. Under the plan, classes would end before the Christmas break, and the 10 to 14 days before final exams would be devoted to a reading period.
It is an unstructured period during which additional papers or readings might be assigned or regular readings might be digested.
The proposal suggested next year for discussion and experimentation with the program. Then a proposal would be made to President John R. Hubbard.
Instead of this plan, the council endorsed a substitute offered by the executive committee.
It authorizes the executive committee, or a committee it may appoint, to study the calendar problem and report to the council in September. By December, the council is to be ready to make a final proposal to Hubbard.
Following council approval of the proposal, it was proposed that the committee be given a direction to pursue. It was overwhelmingly approved that the
committee be instructed to focus on plans that would end the fall semester by Christmas.
The plans most likely to be considered are the early-semester, 4-1-4 and 4-x-4 plans. The early-semester plan would begin the fall semester two or three weeks earlier and end before Christmas with the spring semester beginning right after vacation.
The 4-1-4 plan would begin the fall semester earlier, allow an interim academic period in January, and begin the spring semester in February, as it is now.
The 4-x-4 plan would make the month of January art open month instead of an interim academic period.
The panel may also consider the trimester and quarter system plans to evaluate their feasibility.
The council elected Frances
Feldman, outgoing president of the Faculty Senate, to replace Martin Levine, who resigned, as chairman of the council for a term ending in May. 1975.
Before Feldman’s election, a petition for a change in the bylaws was presented that would allow the chairman of the council to be any faculty member on the council instead of a faculty member on the executive committee.
Discussion of the change was put over until September after a motion to suspend the rules failed to receive the required two-thirds vote to allow its consideration Monday.
It also changed the minimum voting requirement in some council elections. For constituencies under 1,000 the requirement remains 33^, but for those over 1.000. it will be 33^ of the first 1.000 and 15<7r of the remainder.
Issue looks at vote on program fees
The issues in the programming-fee referendum warrant more discussion and analysis than could be carried in the last regular issue of the Daily Trojan (Friday, May 17).
For this reason, an extra four-page edition has been
authorized, primarily to aii issues in the referendum.
This special edition carries opposing statements on the question of mandatory fees, as well as rebuttals to the basic statements (see page 2).
The extra edition was planned without advertisements to provide maximum coverage of the referendum itself. The issue also provides space for coverage of major events of the past weekend of general campus interest.
This is the last edition of the Daily Trojan for the spring semester.
$191,897 FOR PROJECTS, SERVICES
Student board approves budget
The Student Programming Board approved budgets totaling $191,897 for use in student projects and administrative services during 1974-75 at its meeting Thursday night (see list on page 2). Over $359,000 had originally been requested.
The action came during a 10-hour session Thursday night.
The allocations are based on the projected amount of student fees that will be available next year if the mandatory fee concept is upheld in the referendum
ballot being mailed to students this week.
If the current system of mandatory fees is retained, the $4.50 programming fee on the fall fee bills will bring about $150,000 into the student fund.
The board also expects to make use of approximately $30,000 remaining funds that were allocated but not spent during 1973-74. This includes between $6,000 and $8,000 from the Linda Ronstadt concert ticket sales.
Programming board appeals ruling
The executive committee of the President’s Advisory Council voted Monday to hear an appeal of a ruling of the Credentials and Elections Commission that the Student Programming Board violated the election code for the special referendum on student programming fee.
The appeal will be heard Thursday, when both sides in the referendum will be allowed to present their positions.
The dispute is overtwo half-page advertisements in the Daily Trojan May 16 and 17. They were purchased by the Student Programming Board.
The ruling under appeal stated those purchases were an improper use of funds. The cost was $160. Board members had been advised about a week before that campaign spending would be limited to $100.
The executive committee voted to send out the
campaign arguments and the ballot today to get the material to students as quickly as possible.
The commission had voted Friday to have a copy of its decision included in the ballot package. It could be mailed later if the executive committee decides it necessary.
Also, supporters of the mandatory fees were prohibited from further expenditures until the appeal is decided. If the committee decided the spending was illegal, it could prohibit further spending by those favoring the fees and allow the opponents a higher spending limit or raise the spending limit and declare the money spent part of that allowable under the limit.
A complaint that an editorial in the Parking Lot Paper, the commuter students newsletter, supporting the mandatory fees was a violation was dismissed.
An additional $10,000. unallocated last year, will also carry over.
The primary criteria for the individual budget allocations were the worth of the program to the campus as a whole and its overall quality, said Dave Blackmar. treasurer and director of student services.
Funding was withheld from several groups, such as the Ski. Sailing, and Table Tennis Clubs, because their respective offerings were considered too narrow to affect the majority of the campus community.
The African Peoples Association budget request, one of the highest ($33,326). was tabled until the board could get more information on the quality of its current program.
The most controversial allocation was made to Freshwater Productions, which had requested $42,000 to put on another concert. The board finally approved $29,000.
Three factors were cited by the group for the failure of the Linda Ronstadt concert May 11 on Cromwell Field: the proximity to finals, the lack of a big name, and stiff competition from offerings at UCLA and the Shrine Auditorium